Error during GeoDjango tutorial documentaion

[Benjamin Smith]

I am going through the GeoDjango tutorial from the official documentation.

1. I have installed the required geospatial libraries, installed and enabled spatial functionality by extending the PostgreSQL via postgis.
   
2. Downloaded the world borders data, and have unzipped the data.
   
3. Created a GeoDjango model (WorldBorder) in the world app.
   
4. Created the load.py inside the world app, as instructed in the documentation.
   

But when I try to import the load module and call the run routine, I am getting an error:

  Failed to save the feature (id: 141) into the model with the keyword arguments:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/home/vagrant/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py", line 577, in _save
      stream.write('%s: %s\n' % ('Updated' if is_update else 'Saved', m))
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-8: ordinal not in range(128)
  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
    File "/vagrant/geo_project/world/load.py", line 30, in run
      lm.save(strict=True, verbose=verbose)
    File "/home/vagrant/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py", line 627, in save
      _save()
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/contextlib.py", line 52, in inner
      return func(*args, **kwds)
    File "/home/vagrant/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py", line 586, in _save
      stream.write('%s\n' % kwargs)
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xc3' in position 62: ordinal not in range(128)

 

I cannot figure out where I am wrong. Could you please help me out? Thank you.

[Benjamin Smith]

I am using these version:

gdal-bin v2.2.3+dfsg-2

Python v3.6.5

Django v2.1

psycopg2 v2.7.5

postgis v2.4.3+dfsg-4

[Jason]

this might be related:  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/geodjango/Imkq2DDI7qg

[Benjamin Smith]

Thank you Jason, that was it.

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 5:49 PM Jason <jjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:

this might be related:  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/geodjango/Imkq2DDI7qg

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